Conservative states have their own home-grown leftists who do just fine at destroying their own state. I travel to them and was there in the weeks leading up to election day last month and had a chance to see their political commercials and the signs on the sides of the roads and do some cursory investigation, I found a few candidates who were not natives. It is true, however, that many did go to school at places we would see as bastions as Leftism.
Then mechanism of people from nearby leftist states doesn't help (As Vermont can attest to due to decades of New Yorkers seeping in) just blaming it on immigration from Leftist states is largely a crutch for a lot of people who cannot find it in themselves to find a way to win elections.
You see this in a lot of places around the country. The only one I give real credence to right now is Virginia being in such close proximity to DC and Maryland, though the process didn't happen overnight.
My wife and I watched "White Christmas" the other night, and there was an exchange that I somehow missed in years past...the movie was made in 1954, and Vermont was so conservative that a Democrat up there just might get rocks thrown at him...
EXCHANGE FROM WHITE CHRISTMAS:
PHIL DAVIS: We've got to stay up here and dream up some way of getting people to come into this place.
BOB WALLACE: What do you suggest?
PHIL DAVIS: I don't know.
BOB WALLACE:It should be something unusual, some kind of a novelty... T
PHIL DAVIS: Tell me, brainstorm, what do you think would be a novelty up here in Vermont?
BOB WALLACE:Who knows? Maybe we can dig up a Democrat?
PHIL DAVIS: They'd stone him!
And look at it now. Just going up to that beautiful state is enough to worry any conservative they might get contact contamination, it is so Leftist.
People forget that VT WAS a very conservative state until all the hippies moved up there in the 1960s and 1970s.
It is full of NYC transplants. Talk to any bed and breakfast owner in VT and you will discover that the once worked on Wall Street, made a bunch of money and now the make pancakes.
The only conservative part left in VT is the NW Kingdom up on the Quebec border. With the exception of Jay Peak it does not get a lot of tourists like the middle and southern part of the state. It is full of dairy farms. Up until recently there were more cows in VT than people. Many of the dairy farms have signs on them that say TAKE BACK VERMONT. However, they are out voted by the liberals in the cities/college towns.
wow, nice catch
True story.
Once on December 25th it snowed in the Metroplex, my back yard in particular. Now, snow on Christmas isn’t all that unusual is some parts but in North Texas it is.
So over at Hannity I posted that we were having a white Christmas ... to which one of the Left Wingers on the forum demanded to know what I’d meant by that.
I was like, dude, it’s Christmas and it snowed in North Texas.
His response was something like “my bad”.and he was quite embarrassed.